Today’s Headlines

• Are self-driving cars safe for cities? (Curbed)
• San Mateo’s express bus lanes move forward (Daily Journal)
• When your deputy hits and runs, it’s just an “unfortunate event that punctuated an otherwise fantastic evening” (Sacramento Bee)
• The Women Led Cities initiative is amplifying women’s voices in planning and design (SmartCitiesDive)
• Silicon Valley talks about how to be an innovative city (Route Fifty)
• How cities deal with badly parked bike-share bikes (The Local)
• Car storage: VW parks 300,000 diesels it bought back (Reuters)
• Connecting climate change and social change (Metropolitics)
• Uber considers buying JUMP bikes (Tech Crunch)
• To cut congestion, New York approves surcharge for Uber, Lyft, taxis—even for shared rides (Engadget)
• Nashville’s “Declaration of Transportation Independence” (Roadshow)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF